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I need a program to encode an audio file (like wav,mp3,ogg etc) to a video file (with a static picture or black/blank screen)

I want an easy solution were I can achieve that like in a few steps making a few mouse clicks because I am going to need to make lots of those files.

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The reason I need to do that is to upload them to my youtube channel and then being able to transcribe them

And I want to use youtube for that since there are only 1 or 2 transcribers for ubuntu that are kinda glitchy and none of them (at least to my knowledge) supports the feature that I most need for such a job

play the audio and then pause it when I start typing (without the need for me to push a button or make a key combo) and youtube caption editor does exactly that

it also is very easy to accurately timestamp the dialog infact it does it for me almost perfectly and I can find tune with my mouse the minor imperfections to make it 100% perfect.

Its really a shame not being able to find a decent transcription software for linux...

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  • Have you looked into software for subtitling? Those are probably good for transcription.
    – eri0o
    May 15, 2016 at 17:20

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You can use ffmpeg to create a video out of an image and an audio file in terminal. First to install ffmpeg run the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

After you get it installed. Run the following command in terminal keeping the image, the audio and the terminal's current directory same:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i <the image file name with extension> -i <the audio file name with extension> -shortest <the output file name>.mpeg

for example if your picture file name is image.png and the audio is music.ogg you will run:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.png -i music.ogg -shortest output.mpeg

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Using VLC:
In Media menu, select "convert/save"
In "file selection" clic "add", select your sound file.
Clic "show more option" , clic "play another media synchronously" , select your video as "extra media" .
Clic "convert/save" button.
Select "Youtube video SD" in Profile list, give a name as "test.flv" in "file destination"
clic "start",
After transcode process, test.flv is in your home directory.

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  • It seems to work I converted and saved a test mp4 (choosed the youtube video SD option) but when I uploaded the video on my channel youtube couldnt process it. I suppose because it has not a picture or something :/
    – papajo
    May 15, 2016 at 17:46
  • For me, it works, but treatment in youtube is quite long (freeze to 95% but it is ok when published)
    – laugeo
    May 15, 2016 at 18:28

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